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Vouvray Sale 7-11-25

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Vouvray Sale
Collector’s Corner: Pape Clement


 
White Wines for the Ages
 
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Vouvray, Featuring Domaine Huet
 
Vouvray: one of the world’s most complex, age-worthy, terroir-driven, aromatically intense, and praised white wines. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more wildly expressive and flexible grape than the Chenin Blanc that composes practically all white wines from Vouvray. Esteemed for its profundity at all sweetness levels, Vouvray ranges from bone-dry (Sec), lightly- to medium-sweet (Demi-Sec), and dessert style (Moelleux).
 
Granted AOC status in 1936, this commune in the Loire Valley is home to a landmark estate that has endured since those early days. Domaine Huet produces glorious, age-worthy wines not to be overlooked.
 
Domaine Huet is the most sought-after Vouvray producer, at least according to Wine-Searcher data, but that has never surprised us.
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Mid-Week Newsletter 7-10-25

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Arterberry Maresh
Molitor in Urzig
Trending White Burgundy
Grape of the Week: Muscat
Siro Pacenti


 
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Grand Cru Oregon Wines
 
The Dundee Hills are a hallowed place in Oregon wine. Though we’d never attempt to pick favorites among the classic Willamette Valley AVAs, Dundee Hills holds a special place for good reasons. It’s home to some of the oldest Pinot Noir producers in the state and home to some of the finest vineyards in the entire United States. “It started here for a reason,” is their slogan, after all.
 
Though the AVA has only formally been on the books for twenty years, it holds over sixty of history. Abbey Ridge, Archery Summit, Domaine Drouhin, Durant, Résonance, White Rose… the list goes on.
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Scavino Sale 7-9-25

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Paolo Scavino Sale
Nerd Alert Featurette: Lopez de Heredia



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Paolo Scavino
 
In Barolo, an estate offering both high quality and affordable pricing is a rarity. One such estate is Paolo Scavino. With access to some of Barolo’s most prized vineyards and a winemaking team that embraces the best of both modern and traditional techniques, the Scavino wines are arguably the smartest buys in Barolo today.
 
Rich and powerful in their youth, the wines are built to age. Their true greatness develops after time in the cellar – something that can’t be said about all of Scavino’s modernist peers.

Today, his daughters, Elisa and Enrica, oversee the winery, ensuring its continued legacy of quality.
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Hermann Ludes Sale 7-8-25

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Hermann Ludes Sale
Close-Out Featurette: German TBAs



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Hermann Ludes
 
Tucked in the upper Mosel, north of the more famous Mittelmosel, is the village of Thörnich. Wines here have a more Saar-like profile with structured, tense wines. Here, the Ludes family have crafted wines in the same style since Hermann founded in the estate in the 1950s. In the Grand Cru vineyard, Ritsch, the family crafts wines uninfluenced by modern preferences for ripe and plush wines. Instead, the wines are, as importer Stephen Bitterolf of Vom Boden puts it, “rustic, transparent, bracing – even a touch brutal” that speak in a “faceted, crystalline and largely mineral-and-earth driven language.”
 
They bottle by parcel and most of their holdings are old, ungrafted parcels.
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GD Vajra: Barolo Born of Family 7-6-25

The Vajra family embodies the beauty of the Langhe and the inseperable human history of its wines and culture. Founded in 1972 by Aldo Vajra, this estate was born out of a young man’s desire to reconnect with his family’s roots. At a time when many were leaving the countryside, Aldo went the other direction—back to his grandparents’ farm in Vergne, near Barolo village, to embrace a life of viticulture and stewardship. Today, with his wife Milena and their children Giuseppe, Isidoro, and Francesca fully involved, GD Vajra has become one of Piedmont’s most respected family-run estates.
 


The Vajra Family

GD Vajra’s Barolos are known for their purity, aromatics, and classical structure. The wines walk a line between tradition and clarity, blending long macerations and aging in large Slavonian oak with a modern sensibility toward freshness and finesse.

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